simpleheartedness
simpleheartedness is the alternative form of simple-heartedness.
Meaning of simple-heartedness
Noun
simple-heartedness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
- ... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.1998, John Francis McDermott, Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi, →ISBN, page 37
Origin of simpleheartedness
From simplehearted + -ness.
Questions about simpleheartedness
- What is simpleheartedness the alternative form of?
- Simpleheartedness is the alternative form of simple-heartedness.
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